How to keep humidity up - anyone use a humidifier?

[MaggieMae]

Hello all,

We picked up my daughters BP yesterday morning. She seems to be doing well. She's moving around the enclosure a bit, trying the different hides. She spent time in the cool side hide and is now on the warm side hide with the heat mat under her. Temps are 89 on the warm side, 78 on the cooler side. We have a screen top with a ceramic (no light) heater and foil taped to it.
We're finding the humidity is difficult to keep up and are spraying often. We do have a 3rd hide between the middle to warm side that has moist moss in it, however I believe the humidity in the enclosure should be 50-60? We'll have to spray constantly to keep that up (which we are doing right now). Does anyone use a humidifier?

[RebelCue]

What are you using for substrate? I use a rack system with tubs and it makes keeping humidity stable so much easier. But my first one i can kept in a tank.

Cover 75% of the screen top with press and seal to help keep humidity in. Unfortunately the CHE is going to dry the air out very quickly. Use something like reptichip to hold moisture. Itll help keep humidity up as well. With a tank set up, misting will be a daily chore. Best of luck to you guys with your new BP!

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[MaggieMae]

We're using eco earth right now. I don't know if getting another mat heater and ditching the CHE would keep it warm enough in there?

[Hugsplox]

We're using eco earth right now. I don't know if getting another mat heater and ditching the CHE would keep it warm enough in there?

It would help with the humidity, but you may find you can't keep your ambient tempratures up using only a heat mat(s), as they do next to nothing for that. When I was keeping a BP in a glass enclosure I had the same issue keeping humidity at an acceptable level. I fixed this by just making a humid hide. That way I could mist once or twice a day, but if my BP needed a more humid enviroment, he could go into that humid hide.

There are a lot of examples of DIY humid hides, but I use the one linked below for all of my animals and love them. Super easy to use and clean, but of course if you want to save a little money, DIY is 100% okay.

https://www.pangeareptile.com/store/...y-hide-en.html

[Vegan.Hiker]

Hi there,

Depending on where you live, it may be a never ending, difficult battle to get the humidity in the right parameters without a humidifier and a humidistat. Especially if you prefer a glass enclosure. I use a reptile humidifier with two 1” tubes and humidistat set to kick on at 55% Rh and kick off at 60% Rh. It keeps the humidity just right at all times and looks kind of cool when it kicks on and the fog drops from the top.

In my opinion, constantly fussing with foil and towels over the top, misting with a spray bottle, and wetting the substrate are not sustainable solutions for a pet that can live up to 30 years. Plus, wet substrate can lead to other issues like scale rot. Just my 2 cents.

There are some pics of my humidifier tubing and the humidistat I use in this thread. https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...-new-enclosure

Best of luck.

[GoingPostal]

A room humidifier might help, any heat lamp just constantly dries out the cage unfortunately. I run a large room humidifier in the winter when my oil heater is warming the room as it does the same thing. I think a humid hide is a good idea, also put another water dish right under the CHE if you can. I'm not a fan of blocking air flow as it's already very poor in aquarium setups and spraying several times a day is not helpful as what you need is stable high humidity, not constantly changing from high to low is really a good way to end up with respiratory problems.